China ancient writing site.

More than 8,000 years ago, a batch of prints (9,000-7,800 years ago) were unearthed at Jiahu Site in Wuyang, Henan Province, which were called Jia Hu prints. Some scholars think it's just lettering, while others think it's writing. Tsung i Jao, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, made an in-depth study of Jia Hu's inscriptions and proposed that "Jia Hu's inscriptions provide brand-new information for the key issue of the origin of Chinese characters". Ge, an archaeologist in the history department of Peking University, also thinks that "these symbols should be a kind of writing".

The article The Earliest Use of Characters and Symbols in 7000 BC in China, Henan and Jia Hu, co-authored by Zhang Zhongzhu and Professor Li Xueqin, was published in the British magazine Ancient, which attracted the attention of some domestic and foreign media, and interested foreign scholars also discussed it on the website of Science. An Analysis of Cai and Zhang Juzhong's Brilliant Dawn of Chinese Civilization —— Also on the divinatory symbols [1] discovered by Jia Hu in Wuyang: in the inscription of Jiahu 2 1, the recognized 1 1 belongs to the divinatory symbols reflecting the images of Li Li and Kun in the Yi Studies.

Zhu Yuan (Yi) and Qu Muyuezhi (Yi), associate researchers of Chuxiong Institute of Yi Culture, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, personally visited Zhengzhou and Wuyang, and interpreted them one by one. They thought that they were ancient Yi scripts in southern Shandong, which retained the original Chinese character system, and the Yi people independently developed from a group of people who migrated from ancient Chinese nations in the Central Plains War. Qingdun site in Jiangsu belongs to Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with digital inscriptions dating back 5,000 years. Among the major archaeological discoveries in Qingdun site, the most mysterious one is the carved symbol left by the ancients on the elk horn in Qingdun.

During the excavation of Qingdun site, in addition to a large number of stone tools, pottery and jade articles, a surprising number of elk horn fossils were unearthed, many of which also carried symbols portrayed by the ancients. Because the archaeological excavation report was published in the Journal of Archaeology as late as 1983, archaeologists did not pay special attention to these symbols when writing the report, but only published it. Who knows that once the archaeological excavation report was published, it immediately attracted the attention of Yi-ology, mathematics and linguists. Many people think that mysterious depicting symbols are the oldest writing in China, which is more than 2,000 years earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins. Mr. Ji Geng, a professor of mathematics at Hainan University, first wrote an article, thinking that this is the oldest number. Mr. Zhang, president of the China Yi-ology Research Association, linked these symbols with the strange characters on the six devices in Anzhou, and thought that they were the original symbols of the origin of Yi hexagrams. Mr. Sun Zhensheng, who specializes in the study of the Book of Changes, pointed out in his publishing notes that there have been two archaeological achievements in the study of the Book of Changes in recent years, namely, the identification of the original hexagrams and the excavation of the silk book of the Book of Changes by Mawangdui. On the bone horns and antlers unearthed from Qingdun Site in Hai 'an County, Jiangsu Province, the Oracle bones of Yin Ruins, the Oracle bones of Joo Won?, the bronze wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the bamboo slips of Tianxingguanchu in Jiangling, Hubei Province, there is a symbol composed of six numbers, which has long been regarded as an unrecognizable "strange word" ... Mr. Zhang pointed out that these symbols are the original form of divination. ...

Therefore, at the international symposium on Zhouyi held in Jinan, Shandong Province in 1987, many papers directly or indirectly mentioned this important discovery of Qingdun site, so the carving of Qingdun elk horn was recognized by many experts and scholars as the initial symbol of the origin of Yi-ology. ...

Historians generally believe that the earliest writing in China is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is more than 3,600 years ago, while Qiaozhuang Tomb Site belongs to Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the inscription on Qiaozhuang Tomb Site in Zhejiang Province is more than 5,000 years ago. These symbols have advanced the written history of China for more than 65,438+0,000 years. The study of Qiao Zhuang cemetery shows that the ancestors at that time had reached a certain level of civilization and needed to communicate in some way, so this kind of depiction symbol appeared. According to radiocarbon dating and correction, the age of Taosi site in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province is about 2500 BC ~ 65438 BC+0900 BC. 1984, archaeologists found a fragment of a flat pot at Taosi site. The stubble around the debris was painted red, and there were two big characters on the debris, one of which was "Wen" and the other was interpreted by experts in many ways. Zhu Naicheng, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Information Center, said that Zhu Wenshu was earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions 1500 years [4].

Su Zeng, an archaeologist, commented: "Taosi culture not only reached a higher stage of the" national party "era than Hongshan Culture's later society, but also established its central position at that time, which was equivalent to the Yao and Shun era in ancient history, that is, the earliest" China "in the pre-Qin historical records, which laid the foundation for China." Yicheng County, located in the southeast of Xiangfen County, is a descendant of the legendary Tang Tao Tang Yao. "Shui Shu" is the general name of ancient Chinese characters and books of China Shui people. It has only more than 800 words and is called "Lu Sui" in the language of the Shui people. It was handed down from generation to generation by Mr. Shui Shu. Its shape is similar to that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and it records the cultural information of ancient Shui people such as astronomy, geography, religion, folklore, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics and law, and is known as the "living fossil" of hieroglyphics.

Judging from the current research results, Shui Shu is usually regarded as a witchcraft book. The manufacturing time of "Shui Shu" is very old. Some scholars speculate that the origin of "Shui Shu" can be traced back to Zhixia generation, and "Shui Shu has a certain marriage relationship with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, an ancient Yin people". The place where Shui Shu was made was first in the northwest, then introduced into Jiangxi from the north, and then moved from Jiangxi to Guizhou Province. Many ancient characters and symbols of Xia and Shang dynasties can be found in the "Shui Shu" used by the Shui people for sacrifice.

"Shui Shu" is still in use at present. If Shui Shu is really related to the culture of the Central Plains, rather than a fan's personality coincidence, it will be very valuable for solving the mystery of the Central Plains culture. After a series of inferences and scientific tests, this relationship has finally been proved. In March 2002, Shui Shu was included in the first batch of China Archives Heritage List.

In order to inherit the ancient culture of the Shui people, Guizhou Province has collected more than 10,000 Shuishu, and Sandu County, the only Shui autonomous county in China, has also deciphered the Shuishu. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins is recognized as a relatively mature Chinese writing system.

About a century ago, there was an important archaeological discovery in Anyang, China, which was the discovery of Yin Ruins and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Since then, China's research on the history of Yin and Shang Dynasties has entered a new era. According to Chinese ancient philologists, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is "the earliest and relatively complete writing that can be seen at present". It is already very complicated. More than 3,000 words have been found, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, auxiliary verbs, adjectives, etc., and a narrative with more than 1.7 words can be formed. Therefore, scholars affirm that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is by no means the primary stage of my China writing, and it must have developed for a long time before it.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago. King Guo Zijian was seriously ill, and he sought medical advice everywhere. He came across a tortoise shell engraved with medicinal materials, and thought it was a valuable antique, so he sent people here to look for it. It turned out that these tortoise shells were picked up by farmers in Anyang, Henan Province and sold to Chinese medicine shops. Later, after research, it was found that the lines on the tortoise shell should be ancient characters. This discovery caused a sensation in the academic and cultural circles. Since then, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has been influenced by many things. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest China script we have found so far. It was carved on tortoise shells or animal bones in Shang Dynasty. These words are mainly used to predict good luck or bad luck. In the process of divination, the tortoise shell was burned first, and cracks appeared on the tortoise shell. People in Shang Dynasty predicted good or bad luck according to cracks, and recorded divination and results on tortoise shells. These words carved on tortoise shells or animal bones are called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions".